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Echuca. The Presbyterian Church built 1901. Now Uniting. Architect E Castles.Unusual black and white tiles above Gothic door and rose window above.
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Tatura. The Victory Hall added to the 1881built Institute after World War One in 1925.
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Parkes NSW. A reconstructed copy of Moat Hall in Coventry England where Sir Henry Parkes was born.
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Parkes. Town statue of its name sake Sir Henry Parkes who was the Father of Federation in Australia. Behind is the 1925 heritage listed National Australia Bank now the NAB.
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Kapunda. South Australian copper mining town. A track side view of the Kapunda Railway station which was completed in 1860. It closed in the 1980s and is now a residence.
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Tumut. The Presbyterian Church built in 1878. The first Presbyterian church was built elsewhere in Tumut in 1856. This 1878 church is now the Uniting Church.
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Goolwa Railway Station. The first station was near the rotunda in the middle of town from around 1853. This station was erected on the wharf around 1884 when steam trains began operating thourgh to Adelaide. Steamranger tourist trains operated from here.
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Goolwa. The 1861 Wesleyan Methodist Church now a Uniting Church. The transepts were added in 1881.
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Redhill on the Broughton River. It was surveyed in 1870. The first hotel was a single storey building which opened in 1874. The Eureka Hotel was built in 1878 and still trades.
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Young. The neo classical Courthouse. Built in 1928.
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Molong. the Molong Cafe in a fine Art Deco building . 1934.
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Albury. Bonegilla house in Kiewa Street. Built in 1857. Name later used for the migrant camp near Albury after World War 2. Lace work verandas added around 1875.
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Wellington. NSW. The unusual designed Wellington Hotel. Licensed in 1880 to accommodate rail travellers. Note corner turret between two small gables. Upper floor added about 1900.
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Hamilton Victoria. The second St Andrews Presbyterian church in basalt stone and Gothic style. Opened 1909.
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Sunbury. Rupertswood House with fountain and clock tower. Fine cast iron lacework on the verandas. Completed in 1876. Now a Catholic College since 1927. JPG
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Molong. The old granite Catholic Church built in 1860. It is beside and newer church built in 1912.
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Tatura. The Presbyterian Church. Built in 1912.
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Echuca. Brigidine Convent and college built 1888.
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Young . The first Anglican Church was built on this spot in 1865. This Gothic masterpiece was designed by Edmund Blacket a famed NSW architect. Built in 1893.
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Young. The 1886 Courthouse with its trianguar pediment and grand Greek temple facade and the NSW insignia. Given to Education Dept in 1924. With additions opened as Young High School in 1947
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Hamilton Victoria. This first St Andrews Presbyterian Church was built in 1857. Later used as a church hall.
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Tatura. The Romanesque style Catholic Church. Built 1912.
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Molong. The Freemasons Hotel built in 1911.Established in 1856. Totally rebuilt in 1911.
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Echuca .On the Murray River. The former Post Office and clock tower designed in Italianate style. Erected 1877.
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Warracknabeal. The former Dal Monte picture theatre. Built around 1930 by by Jospeh Vasquez who owned it until he died in 1941. Now used as shops.
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Albury. The panorma from the World War One Memorial on top of Western Hill at the end of the main street. Site suggested by Charles Reade the town planner from Adelaide.
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Narromine. Hand painted British Art Nouveau tiles in Shorts Buthcery. Built in 1910. Whiie and brown horned cattle.
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Orthodontists Rooms
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Molong. The Pioneer Bakery advertising on glass windows.
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Adelaide. Kilkenny. Derelict site marked as former Forwood Down foundry from 1956 to 1966 when they merged with Perry Engineering who took it over.Finally Biancos cement factory 1996 to 2009.
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Wellington. Built for Commercial Bank of Sydney around 1910, now Stock Agent since 1985. On laneway with chamfered corners, recessed entrance with columns on each side, curved masonry balustrade on balcony.
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Goolwa. The rail tracks as a Steam Ranger Red Hen rail car leaves Goolwa Railway station and Lake Alexandrina.
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Molong. St Johns Anglican Church. Built in brick 1905 with terracotta roof tiles.
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Wellington. The Post Office was built in 1862. This two storey section and facade was added in 1904.
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Albury. Art Deco public toilet block on the top of Western Hill beside the War Memorial. Built in 1924.
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Tumut. The former Commercial Bank of Sydney built in 1889 with narrow fluted cast iron pillars. Now a NAB bank. Diagonally opposite the Westpac Bank.
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Kapunda. Old copper mining town with a large Irish immigrant population. A stained glass window in St Rose' Catholic Church built 1938. A memorial to all the priests who served the church.
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Junee. The Salvation Army Citadel. A very tiny citadel. Built in 1892 and still in use. The window points are taken from military chevrons.
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Lockhart. In the Riverina of NSW. One of about a dozen impressive local sculptures made from rusty old engineering equipment and parts. The sheep dog.
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Empty Arena
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Narromine. Freight train passing through the 1883 railway station.
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Hamilton Victoria. Beautiful stained glass window in the Catholic Church.
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Young. This Presbyterian Church was built in 1920 of greenish grey coloured feldspar quartz. Young’s first Presbyterian church was built in 1871.
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Young. The impressive main entrance to the Young State School built in 1883. On the rigth attached to it is the headmasters residence.
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Kapunda. Interior of Eringa the former home of Sir Sidney Kidman. He donated it for Kapunda High School in 1921. Stained glass windows in doors of bullrushes and reeds installed about 1900.
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Torrens Park. Adelaide. The first part of Mitcham Lawn House was built in 1854. This Italianate two storey part behind the original house was added around 1880.
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Narromine. The Wesleyan Methodist Church built in 1926. It is closed and now part of an aged care facility.
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Narromine. Art Nouveau tiles and hand painted beef cattle tiles of the local butcher shop.
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Parkes. A fine Art Deco style duplex house in Parkes. Now an early learning centre for pre schoolers
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Warracknabeal. Rare polychromatic brick work patterns on the corners of the Catholic Presbytery. Built in the late 1880s.
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Tumut. The Post Office. Built in 1879. The old building was given a new facade with arches in 1904. The architect was James Barnet.
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Old Bushman Hotel Gawler. 1870s. at rear is part of the original 1850s hotel.
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Echuca. Victoria. Dr Crossons residence and private hospital. Built 1875.Ornate. Cast iron balcony. Architect Wm Vahland.
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Tumut. The convent building which was part of the Catholic School. Built 1886 with very decorative barge boards on the gables.
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Kapunda. Old South Australian copper mining town from 1842. A miner's cottage with grand pretensions. Window and door surrounds include keystones.
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Tumut. The Art Deco draper and mercer shop of Learmont built in 1927. The Learmont business was established here in 1889. .
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Goolwa. The distinctive half rounded roof of the railway superintendents residence completed in 1854.
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Goolwa Wesleyan Methodist Church built in 1861. The transepts were added a few years later.
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Port Vincent on Yorke Peninsula. The town's Soldiers War Memorial.
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